Posted by CptDondo on 11/14/06 16:33

OK, this is OT for this group, but I really have no idea where to post this.

I am working on a project where a 'client' periodically queries a number
of 'servers'. The exchanges are done using XML.

There is one client and an awful lot of servers (hundreds), and
bandwidth is limited. It can take hours for the client to query all of
the servers in round-robin fashion. (We can't use exception reporting
or have the servers report for technical reasons.)

My solution is to develop intermediate proxy-cache boxes, which would
query servers in their subnet and cache the results. The client then
would only need to query the proxies.

This seems like a pretty simple idea, and there solutions out there for
html proxies doing this sort of thing.

Is anyone aware of anything out there for xml queries?

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